Welcome to the first edition of our weekly K-pop Chart, bringing you the Top 40 songs and albums, in the UK.

The chart is based on real numbers and solid facts, using a simple combination of complex formulae to find out the best of the best in the UK for K-Pop. Similar to the Korean charts, the UK K-Pop Chart uses sales numbers, votes from the fans and broadcast exposure, to calculate automatically without bias, the Top 40 K-Pop singles and albums in the UK.

This weeks chart does not include votes, however over the next few days we will be releasing polls to help determine next weeks charts!

So without further ado, the first UKP K-pop Top 40 songs…

1

BEAST – SHADOW

Release: July 19th 2013

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1

4MINUTE – VOLUME UP

Release: April 8th 2012

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1

HYUNA – ICE CREAM

Release: October 21st 2012

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1

TROUBLEMAKER – TROUBLEMAKER

Release: November 30th 2011

New

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1

4MINUTE – IS IT POPPIN’?

Release: July 5th 2013

New

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1

4MINUTE – I, MY, ME, MINE

Release: July 4th 2010

New

1

GD&TOP – KNOCKOUT

Release: March 28th 2012

New

1

2PM – HANDS UP

Release: July 4th 2010

New

1

2PM – A.D.T.O.Y

Release: July 5th 2013

New

1

BEAST – BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

Release: July 5th 2013

New

 

Rank Song Artist(s)
11 HuH 4minute
12 Good Day IU
13 Bad Girl Good Girl Miss A
14 High High GD&TOP
15 I Don’t Need a Man Miss A
16 Don’t Leave GD&TOP
17 Ma Boy Sistar 19
18 Flower Power Girls’ Generation
19 J Rice Griefer
20 Baby Good Night GD&TOP
21 Oh Yeah (ft Park Bom) GD&TOP
22 What’s Your Name? 4Minute
23 Stand By Me SHINee
24 Roly-Poly T-ARA
25 Be My Baby Wonder Girls
26 Good-Bye Baby Miss A
27 You & I IU
28 Hyde VIXX
29 Turn It Up T.O.P
30 NoNoNo Apink
31 The Last Waltz Joyeongguk
32 Sixth Sense Brown Eyed Girls
33 Breathe Miss A
34 Moya AOA
35 Touch Miss A
36 So Cool SISTAR
37 Wow BTOB
38 Because I’m Stupid SS501
39 No More Perfume On You Teen Top
40 Mine Kim Jae Joong

 

Some fan favourites were obviously expected, but we were also surprised by the low sales numbers of some of the big headline groups who recently made a comeback… which meant that some of them didn’t even make the Top 40!

And proving that we Brits are a little different from the Koreans and Americans, we really do love the classic K-Pop, with some great tracks still making up the Top 40 best selling music in K-Pop in the UK months after their first release!

 

What do you think about the rankings?
Did you buy any of the new releases this week?
Why do you think the sales numbers for new releases in the UK are so low?

Want to know how the chart works? Here we explain how!

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Freya is the founder of UnitedKpop, steering the ship since 2011. She is a full time graphic designer with lots of love for her two cats. You can see Freya's portfolio at freyabigg.co.uk